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RELIGIOUS OPPORTIMIES.
"Th.. Art Weighed irt the Balances and Found
Wanting."
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dad orst Two, by Willlow no0r,ot Tomes,
the ntiemesiab of eedoulture, (Masa) ebreeeee, the king of the Chaldeans,
Clod Weighed that life by a Stand-
, :
A deepetch fronl Chicage says:
liev. Fronk Ile Witt Talmage preach-
ed from the following text: Daniel
V , 27, "Thou nrt weighed in the bal-
ance and found wanting,"
Thee° words were epoken in the
royal banquet ball of the Most fame'
ens capital in the east. This is
Babylon—beautiful, licentious, cor-
rupt, luxuricillS, shumeletis Babylon;
'Babylon the Pride. of tho Chaldeans;
Babylon the wonder of the world!
Gtesias Dille us that Babylon wee
sixty miles square. That meant; its
area was more than one-third 'the
size of the modern city of London,
the English bee hive, with its 5,000,-
000 inhabitants, ft was of such
vast wealth that within its central
temple Ives an Idol made of solid
gold, which alone was worth over
$200,000;000, Its surrounding wells
were 65 foot high and wide ceough
to allow four charioteers to drive
their sixteen chargers abreast upon
the top of them, while the moon
shimmered epon 250 watch towers
and tipped with light the spears of
hundreds (if sentinels and shone upon
a hundred gates of solid brass;
which swung open to let friends in
end &hinged shut to keep themies
aut. God had cared foe his believing
Standing upon the heights of the Oiled, now for nearly fourscore years.
famous hanging gardens, which Nob- So the word written on tho wan of
uchadnezzar, the king who bad court- that banquet hall was the record of
ed Anlytis aniong the hills of Bebe,- a test. 13elshazzar's opportunities
tame had thrown up to humor a of leaeling e godly life had been, place
whim of his queen, we can see off in ed in one scale, and when the evil el -
the distance the mighty river Eupig feets of the life he did load were put
rates eowine through the midst of in the other scale it, had gone down
the meeropoile and cutting the city like a flneh. That was tho inevitable
in twain, Along the wharfs of the result. He had twee weighed in the
river were daily heard the cries of balance and found wanting.
the sailors unloading from the ships God's balances weigh every incli-
cargoes of merchandise and food- vidual at the times whee ho feels
and myrrh and m•ecious stones hu- he feels 'dependent upon the divine Joshua.
days of the elders that outlived
'
stuffs as well as the gold and silver iedependent of Cod as well as when
ported from other lands. in the mercy. Never in all his life did So it is also written in Josh.
center of the capital we can aleo SOO Belsb a zzar consider himself more xxiv, 31, and it seems to be given
whore the engineers had gathered the independent of bit enemies then on as ft reason for this that they had
water of this mighty river into a the occasion of thio OEN] kast. Seen all the great works of the Lord
large artificial lake forty Mace The capital of Babylon was stocked t Ite .d for •. B
ut now we
square. Thtis lakeewas wide enough with provisions enough to supply come to a different story. The book
and deep enough to harbor all the the city for many year». The bat- of -Joshua tells of victory in the
modern navies of ehe world. In it ament, repontence and deliverance.
all tering rams of the besieging army •I• si This book telle or sin judg-
these ships of war could drop their had made no impression at all ripen
Their sin was 'disobedience in mak-
anchors, fold their white sails and the brolmeci gates. The walls were
flout too high to scale. For two long ing a league with the heathen rather
yam's the Persian hoets had been, than mnnifesting the true Cod, the
SIDE BY SIDE IN PEACE.
conducting a .rwile siege, nes his_ God. of lerael to them. The great
sin of tboswho bear the name of
tory tolls that on the night 01 the e
famous feast, while the king and his Christ to -day is that instead of be -
princes und a thousand aristocratic ing separated unto Elm they' Inc in
lords of Ills kingdom were drinking leugue with the world lying in the
themselves ihunk, Cyrus, seeing his i xwidic,kl,
etI. 20) .n 0 (1 John V, 19; Rom.
opportunity, turned eside the cum se 1 8..._.. ,.e .
of the River Euphrates and in the There itroise another genera -
early hours of the mornieg marched :o
tLioind norafter them, which knew not the
along that river bed, under the yet the works which He
groat bronze gates aud. along the had done for Israel.
great boulevavde, until at last his Josbua und all that generation
diers, with drown swords, it hovels passed away from this pre-
solr0 1 -m at scene, their successors must
have known the Lord, who brought
A CARNIVAL OP BLOOD. their fathers into the promised land,
but, they had no heart for Him. They
dist not like His ways, .3Ils right -
to dilute the spilled wino with Ing
Man gore find to clutrige the floor
into 0. reservoir of blood. 'Men, tho
lighte of the roonl began to dlin,
peal it grew darker and darker and
blacker and bleaker until nt it
(monied as though we were inearcerat-
ed 1;1 the duegoons of the eternally
lost and the destroyed.
So, in closing, I plead with You
to flee from the banquet hall of sin,
again invite yon into the otber
banquet ettll \Otero Christ trio Divine
Bridegroom is to be inerried to the
era (naively different frora thet with Chemin bis bride. I would invite
whieh 110 would weigh the life of an YOu into; ilea banquet hell, whice Is
igeorant, brutal African cannibal, filled Nvalt the great multitudee or
taught from the days of his youth the redeemed, I would earnestly in -
thee It was right and honorable to vite you into that banquet hall,
eat the roasted flesh of his captives whiCh is filled With the great null -
and slaves. God placed in ono of tstudes of the redeemed. I would
the settles of hie balances all Del- earnestly invite you to come, because
sbazzar's infinite opportunities ior there is a vacant place at thet gos-
cloing good as the mighty ruler of perbanquet tele() which, / o.m. sure,
the wealthiest capital el the oast. has been reserved for you, It, is in
Clod pieced in thnt one seen) all Del- the centro of 0, group of your loved
shezzer's opportunities for lit:towing ones. it is right next to your saint -
and learning about ihe trne God and ed mother end father and wife and•
sister and child, and by ;the loolcs
of your loved ones I thinlc. they are
waiting for yon. 0 sinner, are you
EIS DIVINE LOVE.
Belshazzar was not as some suppose,
the heathen ruler of a heathen nor-.
et the ready to -day to leave the revelers of
tion. De was the grandson sin and to quaff the water of life,
Nebuchadnezzar, whose famous prime
minister was the mighty man , which will fit you for entrance among
he had the sninted hoste, or shall you, rel a,
of God. In all probeibility result of this spurned gospel in -
heard from Daniel's own 1198 the;
Jews, and bow that God ead
even now holding high the bal-
boa 01 adn ei se
tiVni ion tf.10011.10,v eib of oilvienidgliwe,rolnlini gth a?
commandments of the God of ptIt!
Meted the prophet and closed the
tanees. May every one of us, by the
mouths of the hungry wild beasts
of the Moly Spirit, deckle
when his servant was thrown into .P°we'
how the balances of God shall be
the lion's dee. Daniel, at the thno
of which I speak, was about eighty moved I May wo, ono and all, de-
cide that the scale of sin, through
years of age, lle could have testified
anti in all in•obability did testify to the countervailing weight of the
cross, shall go up and not go down !
Belsbavear how the love of 'the truo
TIIE S. S.IESSON.
^V
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOV. 15.
Text of the Lesson, Jeulg. ii., 7-
19. Golden Text, Ps. cvii., 19,
7, And the people served the Lord
all the days of :Joshua mid all the
The boulevards of this ancient city
were pillared with statuary. The
streets encircled the busy marts
where merchents wrangled• for barter
and gain or led clown to the mogul-
neeet bridges which spanned the riv-
er. These 'bridges were flaeked with
palaces, where beauty ond wealth
loitered away the lazy hours or 50115
themselves to sleep, cradled in the
graceful gondolas, which gently
pressed the waters into ripples or
contempt:tamely tumbled the foam
from off their (frosted breases. Every-
where netesien wells tossed up the
waters into fountains, shining
through which the sun 0 yelled the
Lowers with reliebows, while birds of
brillinnt hue, whose ancestors had
been brought from tropical climes,
stopped their singing Jong enough to
queuch their thirst or to cleanse
theh• gorgeous plumage. There in
the evening how...these fountains lift-
ed up their lips, while their cheeks
blushed into a deep red for the good
night kiss of the betting sun.
But We must burry on to -night
and not linger over the scuffle de-
lights of this famous capital, for I
tuai going to lead you into -the royal
banquet hall, where Belshazzar, the
king of the Chaldeane, is giving a
gvetit feast 1,o a thotleand lords of
his kingdom. De is giving this feast
to -night in a hall decorated with
the trophies of conquest and the tri-
umph. Of art, with the air rhythmic
with song and redolent with incense,
with the faces of his dead ancestors
lectured upon the walls or chiseled
by the sculptors in marble of purest
white. Ne is giving. this feast in a
linnquet hall where the sandaled foot
strikes mosaic floes or sinks into.
softest rug; where, under tho
the precious stones sparkle und
gleam, no the jeweled hand of nn ar-
istecrat pustule back the tapestry or
lifts the gold.en chalice to the lip.
Tbe king is giving this drunkee feast,
to show his contempt for the be-
eieging army of Cyrus the Great,
which for lithely two long years bed
fruitlessly Mid siege to his capital,
that
SEEMED IMPREGNABLE.
13ut last, in (hie banquet hall,
at this famous feast, when the in-
toxleated eye became more blelliant‘
than the diamonds giatevieg 'upon
the neked throats of the aSsenibled
guests and the flushed cheeks i.e.:Icier
than the wine cup, there tqfpeate
marvelous sig,ht. Out of spaco there
stretehes u. hand --an armless., bodi-
Ices hand—niel with the finger of
this strange hend for pen a hid-
den power writes there awful words
of doom upon the wall of that bane
quct hall, It Is to intOrProt 0110 of
those words, “tekel," which moans
"thou art weighed en the balances
and art found wanting," that. I tun
to -day neettching thie eermen,
preach upon this one word hectiuse
these fetal five letters announced to
Ilelehazzav, the king of the Chat-
deane, that night that he hed to die.
Goci's balaneek alWayg have me
e-ortiant• weights, Ito weighs every
man according' to the work which he
has gesen him. to do. Ile 'weight.: ev-
ery num in proportion to the relig-
ious opportunities that have 5111,
rounded his pest life. Ire weighs ev-
ery nem with refeeence to the Chris-
tian home in which lie was born and
to the prayere of Ohrietian teen and
tvoinen have beeit uttered iti
his Wien. Gott weighs a man net
wee with regeted to his sins of emu
-
mission, and, also as to what he
migh twee accompliehed for God
had he. efnelled himself for his 151 selves on the well, while off in the ie full of tho more wonderful Mee of
vine Mastet he,shouirl have done.*distaneos (mite] be seen the Permian God, who loved 115 twee when we
Mlien clod this royal banquet soldisys. with drawn swords, ritivgir Were Ilona in sine, 'who cononentleth
into thnt banquet hall end. changed
the wassail of wine into
SD, my brother, at the very time
when you feel you are most, Seeure eot1SnesS, Vs dominion over them.
enci can ein with the greatest safety Like thole descendants long after -
God is watching your secret sin and ward, they acted as if their hearts
he is decreeing that you must die. said, "Speak unto us smooth things;
011, man. of sinful habit, hearing 1.0s prophesy deceits; cause the Moly One
do emit not feel that you cam never " (Isceeexx:''' 10' 11').
cease from before us"
They are repre-
night of Belshazzar's banquet hall, of Israel to
escope the scruting Of God's all see- sea'eLo-day by a. vast multitude of
ing eye, never be independent of his lchurchgoem, many of them church
inexorable scales e members, who will not endure 'sound
e (II Tim. iv, 8), yet profess
While we live God's balances are' doctrine
never put away, Isis all seemg eye 'loyalty to Christ. They profess that
is always watthing know God, yet in works they
us, even in the ' tbeY
least secret of places. Ile watches derrY Illime
us in the most sacred places of ouv 11-18. They forsook the Lord and
chambers, in the office, When We go serv.ed Baal end Ash:Meath.
The Lord God who brought them
down the street, Wherever We may 001 of the land 01 Egypt, who led
be. No sin is a secret sin to God.
He knows all and sees all. Tim them through the 1501Sen, on dry
same divine scales that weighed the 'land' who overthrew the host of the
sinful !lie if 13eishazzar in the ban- E'g311l'inlis' their enemies, who fed
(met hall pt. the Babylonish enetat:them with manna all through the
are continually weighing' us., re T / wilderness journey, who divided joie
Whet a blessed and transportin!good. land with vineyards and olive
den before them and• gave them. the
matter where .we luny lie.
have an our gni outweighed ! .We'
!yards and honws for which they
labored not—God, who dict all this
thought this should be that we eat
Would not dere for one instant to for them. and gave them life and
preach a sonnet) upon Cod's
110.1811008 breath mid ell things, Him they for -
at Belshazzar:4 feast unlese we coul 11 stook and fell itao the idolathy of the
idea. 11 would be appalling to de- 11°L Ci°d.
people sound about them, who know
Thus they worship de -
place the geettLest emphaeis 'upon thi's
inct the horror of a sinner s etern- ' '10.
ity. unless lit the same time we
could offer a pardon for all sins to
100115 and not Goc
Petit. xxxii, 17), for it is the devil
who turned Adam and Eve front God
and even asked the Son of God to
all people if they would only all be worship him, wbo is back of all this
willing to be cleansed ot their sins
in the bloodof the Laml1111)113115 away from God. and ills
: e e n
r is and His worship and who is
working so hard in our ilny In man,
heologica serninithies 1)11(1 pu I pi Ls to
turn people itway from God.
14.15. Whithersoever they went
out the hand of the Lord WriS
against, 1.110115 foe evil, as the Lord
had itaid. * anet they Were great-
ly distressed.
The testimony of one Of their
rulers about a thousand years after
this 17115, "T110 hand of our God is
epon all them foe good Reit seek
but Nis m polvec and Ills wrath
no need of any Belshazzar of sin
to-dato-dal'being found wanting when he
lie weighed in Godn
's balances f h
es ie
will only let the crose of jesus
Clivist be placed in the scale op-
posite to that which is piled high
with his past sine.
But in all thet vast throng there
5110,5 11)8113' a Sad heart, 11)803' a hope -
lees deepoite To me Belshazzier'e
feast is better deeerlhed by tha
e rt-
ist by whore I saw it pictured at
Duffel°, N.Y., in the World's Fail.
of 11181151011, 11s•ed into a Anrk 1'0(1115, 1
..e against all thethat forsake
we eta there awhile in total dark -11 22.). In Lev, xxvi
ness. Then, by the magical effect at end Dote xxviii Clod gave an 151)1111(1"
11513(8. it sluwev became brighter ant wanting ELS 30 Whitt Ile would
and brighter entil, upon the side of do if they forsook 1 lini, but for all
this they slimed still fold believed
not for ills Wondrotis works. The3r
believe not in God and trusted not
in RN salvation (I's. ixxviti. 82,
22), The whole Dible teaches that
siece sin entered the carnal inied is
enmity against 001 ; the heart is
deceitful and desperately wicked ;
every iinagination of his bearr, iS
oulyevil continually (Rein, viii, ;
;ler. evil, 9; Gen. N', 5).
the "wall, WO Cotild SOO dint figures
begin lo forin thell1SelVes. They
looked at, first like
ell.DEOus rilANITOMS,
Then, • as i L bees ine 1 ighthr and
lighter, until the Whole Nom gloNviel
with light. We SON the inside or a
huge palace. Thero Were 311e broad
stairs leading UpWard, '110)311 were
the bodies of men and women lying
proserate upon the floor, amid over-
turned tables tied spihhiid decantess 111. Nevertheless the Lord raised
and broken furniture. It was a tip judges which delivered Client out
scene of grandeur, but also a (gene of the hand of those that spoiled
of ffithy beetialitice, In the centre of them.
the stn hem 50 stood the hoevi fled We lutVe NAL referred to the Wan-
king, with strained eyes 100111335 at derful slefeeness of men lied his
the letters of lire bustling theng against God, but the. Bible
-7"
Hie love" toward us in.that While We
Were yef, sinews) Chriet died for UN
(Elph. 11, 4, 5; Item v, That
"Clod 15 Lane" is the great fountlue
Don truth et feerlptetre, ante being
sueb 15 not willing that any
(Mould perieh (I John iv, 8, 161 if
Pet. V), Many a time Ife tureed
His anger away from tide people,
rind, being full of compaseions Ire
forgave their iniquity and destroyed
sbnt
eought and Weed Adam and Eve
them not (I's. 38). He 6°660°0°3000a 00000008e f°1
TESTED 'RECIPES, Ines gently for a mucli lorgeS thee,
ehorter thne, anti let the other
in all res teeth boil 1 • •
when in their sin they turned away
front Ilim, o,nti He hat/ ever since Ilickory Nut Maccaroene—One 011,11 the slower, g t .v of coo ilea
and ,vott will discover the virtues of
been seeking and saving the lost. hielfery nuts poueded lit a mortar, 1 pee tho w t- - I
es; on early, on the back
17-10, They ceased not from their 009 sugar, 1 egg end a helf, of the
stub- tablesnoone flour, Allee well, then the boil, an'd you. will find it ten-
etovir let a simmer rather
owe. doings nor 11'0111 their
born war drop dessertspoonfuls on gretteed rive dernand juicy instead of dry and
they wept from bral to worso, "They Potted Illuse—Potted ham Is made
With many sinnings and reeentinge fier and beim.
rata .11,wa er n which it was cooked
Is cola.
hard, Always let cerned beef stand
in the t I
mocked the rneseengerti of Clod and by chopping a cupful of cold bolled
despised Eis words and misused Nis ham fine, SOMO of the fat. Mix
prophets until the wrath of the Lord 0, tablespooniul oe flour in cold wee;
CHAPTER. ON COOKIES
arose against Ilis people till there ter, Then stir in the hans and al , '
Molasses Cookies—Two
was no remedy" (II Chron. xxxvi. tableseoonful of mustard and pack! '41"1.43
CUPS good inolaseee, one cup of but -
16). Very long Ile bore with Dunne le a mold.
one cup ehorteuing, oueehalf
but firelly Me sent them into cap- Fliteorings—Orarge and lemon
tecelp'Inislekgar, two teaspoonfule soda,
tivity for seventy yeare. After Me Pool, especially the latter, is value
ciee tenepoonful each ginger fled ein-
restorecl thein from Babylon and able for flavoringe. Peel the fruit
nanion. Mix at night, roll on the
they again became a people, though thinly, dry the parings slowly in the
molding board in the snoriang, cut
not as before, lie sent to them His oven and store in a tin for future
own Son, but they rejected him and use. It will be found ueeful ler in equeres with a knife. Joel, he-
t:ekes, puddings and other dishes fore baking waSii the top of eac.h
crucified Hine tend now they aro
cookie with a bit of one egg beaten
scattered among all nations until and Will save more expensive flavor -
with a tablespoonful of inolassess
He Shall come again in Ifie glory, inge.
and then they will receive Him and, 13razil Nut Candy—Mse 2 cups'
on(elfiegue; hirwrir sOugna'er, ocunPe megalsaTds,
be a righteouti nation from that time sugar and pt water, put in part of
or half lard and hell butter, one cue
forth. They will blossom and bud while of an egg to clarify sugar. Let
boiling water, ono tablespoonful each
and fill the face of the earth with thls boil a. few minutes and take off
fruit (Matt. xxiii, 88, 89; lea. xxv, any scum that rises. When thstel sorf jogoidnfleieir asnotidac,inna umnot,ntioosnaelt,ta.dbolue;
8; xxvii, 6; lx, 21). How wonderful sugar begins to candy, drop
is the purpose of Cod and how sure minced Brazil nuts, and when well enough to make a soft dough. Mix
at night, 111 the morning roll thin
of fulfillment (lea. xis, 24; Ps. mixed spread on buttered plates.
' and bake in a. quick oven.
xxxiii, 11). How numb of heaven Salmon. Loaf—Take 1 can salmon,
upon earth every child of Clod might 4 eggs beaten light, 4 tableepoons Oatmeal Cookies—Two and one -
have if only willing to walk humbly melted butter, and 1 cup broad chlaul,fs cfltdpusr,oatorndedaid,dtdwoode_anhdallone-ehuiptlef
with Prim I (Dela. xi, 2.1; Ps, lxxxi, crumbs. Chop fish fine, and season
13-16). We enter into rest when we to taste with salt and pepper. Stir brown sugar, one cup shortening,
cease from our own works, in butter with a cilver fork until a one-half cup cold water, one tea -
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i lleelefle end Other Notes ,%„
for the liouseitee.per, '..!
7,
0.
Way through, That you buy has
generally a pink rIni, while the Pid-
dle looks like a piece of cold over-
done reek,. This is hecilumi it le
only corned 00 the edges, the piolile
not having Penetrated the meat.
'There Is a good deal of differenee
made in the quelity of corned beef
that is duo to the cooking. Telco
two pieces of exactly the same kind
smooth paste is formed. Beat the spoonful soda, and one of vanilla.
bread crumbs into the eggs, then A little salt mid a little more flour
work all together, form into a loaf to put on the board. Rub shorten -
May Sink and Rise Three Times and steam 1 hour. Serve cold, sliced ing with other ingredients be 'ore
thin. ; adding tbo wnter.
or Never Rise at .A11.
Few popular fancies aro of such Oyster Fricassee—Melt 1 cup but-! Fruit Cookies—Two cups sugar,
wide extent as the belief that a. per- ter in a frying pan, put in 2 qts of one cup better, one cup raisins,
son must rise to the surface three oysters. Let them boil up once, and stoned and chopped, three eggs, one -
times, no more no less, before he remove from the stove. Add 1 cup half teaspoonful soda dissolved in
can possibly drown. There is little cream, Seeger to taste, and table- three tablespoonfuls of milk, one
ground for this supposition, al_ Spoon flour mixed in a little cold nutmeg-, one teaepoonfte each eaves
though it bus been almost univer- milk. Put back on the Stove, and and cinnamon, six cups of flour.
sally believed in for generations. The let it boil till the oysters' are cook- Roll about one-fourth inch thick.
truth is that a drowning person ed. Take off and add the yolks of 8 Bake in rather quick oven ten min -
hot toasted crackersd Delicious Cookies—Four eggs, One
well beaten. Pour over a lace.
rise again. . platter of
may sink the Lrst thaw never to eggs,
It all depends upon the quantity , Serve hat. Cue of butter, two cups of white
of water he swallows when he sinks. Walnut Creams—Take 1 cup grami- sugar, three teaspoonfuls baking
and the size of his lungs. The human later.' sugar, * cup hot water. Boil powder. Sprinkle the top with
body in life naturally floats while quickly for two or three minutes, or Suva before elating out the cakes.
' i •
TIMELY TIPS.
the lungs are inflated. As long as until it jellies n wa • oo ,
one keeps his head above the entre then beat: very fast 'until it crearila
face of the water he ca15 float, face spread on platter, halve and put on
TRIBUTES MD TO EVER
a/a:TY Ivilitlauxm Erv4$
SOME GREAT MEM
Charles Kiegeley end ale Wife•IS
,T elm Rright's Iacono Olable
"This .place is perfect," Clifirlea
Eingsley once wrote to, his 'wife frOM
the seasido ; "Mit it seems a dream*
and imperfect withont you. I neven
before felt the loneliness of being
without the beloved being whefie
every look and word and motion APS
the keynotes of my 1110, People talk
of love ending at the altar—Vools 1,
I lay at the window all 111o101in5,1
thinking of nothing but hone ; 110%
long for it 1"
There is nothing in the ixistory of
love more attractive than the nice
tures of the ideally happy Married
lives enjoyed by some ot our great-
est men or more touching than the
teibute they paid to the women who
filled their days with surehine. In-
deed, if ono were asked to preseht a
picture of the sublimity of married
happiness it would bo only recessare •
to recall the scene In which Charles
Kingsley, within a few days of Iiie
own death, having escaped from Ms
sieb-room, sat for a few blissful mo-
ments by the bedside of hie wife,
who was lying seriouely ill in the
next room. Taking one of her hands
tenderly in his, he seed, in a hustled
voice, "Don't speak, darling. This
is Heaven."
Few men, great or small, have
been happier in their married life.
than John Bright, and the story of
his inconsolable grief when hie lvife.
"the sunshine and solace of his
days," was taken from him, forme
one of the
MOST PATHETIC PAGES
of human history, "it seems to me,"•
he pitifully said, "as though the
world was plunged in darknese, and
that no ray of light could even
reach me agaie thls side the torub.".
It was Cobder who shook bini
last from the lethargy and despait
which were paralyzing his splendid
energies. "There are thousauds of
homes in. England this moment," he
said, "where WireS, mothers, and
children are dying of hunger. Now
when the first paroxysm of your
grief is past, I would advise you LO
come With me, and we will never rest
until the Corn Law is repealed."
The late Dean Stanley, it is said,
worshipped the very ground his wife,
Lady Augusta, trod on, and many,
are the compliments he paid her.
"If I were to epitomize ray wife's
qualities," he once said, "1 couldn't
Tinware car., be cleaned readily by
do it better than in the words of a
up, without having to moven hand walnuts. Put 1. oz or 1 square cm- rubbing it Nvith a damp cloth dippe
d
aor foot. But as soon a.5 a person' colate on a bowM soda;•ru'o bril over teakettle and c bman who drove us on our honey-,
moon. 'Your wife,' he said to me, 'is
sinks he gulps and imbibes a quan- inelt, then add 1 teaspoon pulverized skly and wipe dry.
Accordi le t 0 housewife who has
tily of water. If, after he has swal- sugar, piece butter size of walnut. Int 1 1- ° • ' • • 1 the best woman in lenglandcsand I
1 e the experiment, a thin coating
lowed water, he has any air left in Dip the walnut creams into this and ' . . qu,i,ltwohyagrsehed'ulwdithydbuimp.ity me 3,, 3„.fr,
of varnish applied to orchnnry.straw
Fawcett, the blind Postmaster -Gen-
eral remarked. to a friend who had
his mugs, he will rise again, and dry on sheets of paper. Ibis amoiurt
will continue to sink anti rise alter- will make ele walnut creams, with 1 matting will keep it looking fresh
nately until all tho air IS expelled pound of walnuts. and uew and add to its durability.
expressed sympathy with hint in 1103
111305his lungs, when he will drown. 1 Frosting—Put 1 cup pulverized su- A vegetable strainer of enamel
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In most cases the frightened vice' that may easily be clamped to the, afniniamMy wife is all tbe eyes I
.
gar in a bowl, add 2 teaspoons 'sweet
side of the sink is one of the gentle( want, and eo man ever looked out
tim of an accident swallows enough
n.M
. Milk or ere. Stir well, ard if not
ion conveniences for the housewife on the world through eyes more
water when he first sinks to leave sufficiently moist 1,o spree easily,
noW on the market.
him in an e•xlmusted condition, but eep
as there is still air left in his lungs adding milk very slowly. When'
To take fruit stains from cotton
eof the right consistency,n spread o
muslin or any light article take the
he finds himself on the surface
again. Each time he sinks, howev- the calce. Flavor to suit taste, 137,
staine
I d article and danmen it. Then
er, elle supply of air in Isis ungs
"first letting the white frosting "sot
a little, one can work on lancy 4 burn little stile bur, holding it creature!,
ln marked contrast to
grows less, until ultima.tely there is e"'under the damp portion of the
signs in pink or chocolate. Another'
nye frostingo or filling, made with
this unflattering description was the
no longer sufficient a sucient quantity tcloth and the stein will vanish.
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. I To clean varnished paint, take the compliment he paid to his first wife,,
support him.
' eggs, is as fo . ows .. tea loaves which are left in the tea- whom he had wooed disguised as a
A RELIGION OF LAZINESS. of 1 egg to a stiff froth, add tho grated pulp of 1 large sour apple. pot, pour some hot water over them hackney coachmen, when he spoke of
and let them stand ten minutes. ea as "the cornecting link between
Russian papers give particulars of Sweeten to taste with gran
Then pour the tea into a basin. a woman and an angel."
an extraordinary religious 001510)1001- sugar. Spread between the layers
W.ra.....shrthe paint with a clean flannel, No roan ever relied 0001•0 complete*
ty in Kieft, whose chief tenet is idle- and on top, using any plain cake
d with a clean cloth. by on his wife's guidance and counsel
ness. They are known as the Male- baked in sheets. The filling must be as" Y
than John. Kehl°, the poet of the
vantthina, from tho name of their boiled. --0.----
"Christian Year." Froin the daY,
founder, Corrado Malevaning, who Sweetheart Dumplings—Four taps
pr,ARLs OF TEIOTIGIIT. when he installed 1115 bride in ITurss
Wes releetzed from a lunatic asylum flour, 1 cup bread crumbs, 1 cup
iti 1872 and straightway began. to mirced suet, 1 teaspoon. baking Patience is the king of content.
— ley VTicialhaigTeirtoytlaltlasst.LsavrdmhBou„r,
propagate his strange sect. Basing powder, * teaspoon salt. 1 cup Mehemet.
•
thOinselVes upon the parable of lite. brown sugar. Mix into a. etiff paste Few things are impossible to dilis when he died in her arms at Bournee
lilies which "toil not, neither do with cold water or milk, and divide gence and skill.--eddison. mouth, she was, as he often declared')
making When faith is lost and honor dies, his "conscience, memory and C01.11,
they spin," the' Malevantchina reject into six equal. sized pieces,
sense,"
ell wore except that of the house- each round like an an apple. Those tho men is clecal.—Whatier. mon
0
. 035 tl ' • friends who The last pleasure in life is the Dr. Pusey's too brief mari•ied life
have sweethearts, let them write the sense of discharging our duty.—Ilaz-
s
.
was aLso crowded with happinesss
and his wife's, memory was hione'
names down on a. slip of white pa,- lett.
per and let the different slips be One lie must be thatched with an-
solace during the forty-three yerwe
DRAMATIC FITNESS. pushed. into the ceeter of each other or it wM ill soon ram through.—
he survived her. To his dying day
Owen.
the very sight and smell of the Nu -
There is not a passion so strongly bena plant affeeted him to tears, for
s
rooted in the human heart as envy.
it Nvas 0, sprig of verbena he offered
—Sheridan.
tO Miss Barber when he asked hos
Not to return a benefit is the great- to marry him—"the most sacred and
er pin, but not to confer it is the blissful moment" of his life.
earlier. —Senecas William Cobbett was very properly,
To see wbat is right, and not to proud of his wife, the brave and do-
do it, is want of courage, or of p35111 -voted woinan who was, in his
ciple.—Confucius. words, "the best helpmate an undo -
The earnestness of life is the only serving men Over had. Whateven
passport to the satisfaction of life.—
Tit India there aro 100,000 boys CORNED BEEF. mistakes I heve made in my life—
Theodore P1010035. 1110.10
they have been many end great
A wise man neither 5011101's himself
—she has never had a word of blame
and 627,000 girls under the nge of
fOurteert W110 10')) legally Married, 13 everybody abominated the taste- to be governed, nor netempts to gov-
for ine, nothing but sweet sympathy
While 8.600 boys and 24,000 girls less, rolled up skin and gristle ohm- ern others.—La Druyert. n and consolation. The price of such
inatiesent out by butchera as Good 11110001' and generosity carry
a. wife should indeed be far above
15110 hove not. attained the age of
the day with the popular heart all
rubies."
finite are Under marriage bonds as would be levy little demand for it,
metes a correspondent. It is as far Defe
the world over.—Alexander Smith.
ct in menners is usually the
Lincoln, said thia his wedded life
C'LlIANLTNESS IN ciluncIrEs. removed from the real corned beef defect of line perceptions. Elegance
ha.d been "as near perfection as was
The Bii,hop of Fano, in North Ita- pared 0,9 (i. ripe pear is front a green Emerson. possible this side of Eden." "Their
ly,
that old-fashioned housekeepers pro- comae of no breotling, but or birth.—
children," a. friend once wrote, "can
matter
provides for "the association of one, and that's 511311)5a good When moral courage feels that it
1)61101'wrielmone,niebveern ainclas‘vurfotvrecevmelal
stritetion tO pastors. la all elturelleS 11 5001115 as if blathers. corned any- 15 hi the right, there is no personal
the perfect harmony was infrin
after feast days the floors are to be thing in the way (if interim. moat Leigh Hunt.
daring of which it is incapable.— 1
cleaneed with it weak sublimcite Po- they didn't happen to sell. Our Ile that fancies himself very en- 1410011," and a favorite joke with tho
lution. At least once eVery sevolt grandllielhers used to choose good lightened, 'because he sees the de- Bishop was that be end his wife
days pews and confessional benches solid molitY Pieces from the rural). ficiencies of others, may be very ig- hacl never been "reconciled"—for the
must be wiped with a clampi
cloth r dare sam
y o'st of What they eorned norant, because he has not studied happy reason that they' had never, .
,
end the grating, of the confessionals ie e old as "steak" nowadays; eel's his own.—Dolever. . querrelled.—London Tit -Bite.
11%10110d. With lye.
. Minty it never gets tato Pickle Ws- —.--4._,—.. ----.4.
..1 . DIAMOND TIlinvEs.
et,131: aulong those who corn their
owe meat. FROST ALARMS.
Probably there are more ingenious)
is oWited by 71 0 persons. Electric contrivances whieh give
city of its eize in the world, and
One-fouteli of England and Wtiles
This is ensv enough to do, and the thieves in Kimberley than in any
Thunder is rarely, if ever, heard at slight trouble is more than repaid by. alarm by ringing a bell at the ap-
they are all after (111=011E1S. One
the tenderness and palatableness of proach of Prost ,have been used to
day a Frenchman appeared at Rim-
s' greater diSianr° tlinn elghleeni the igoducts One has. o„ly to select
miles. some extent by California. fruit-
berley. He wore boots fitted wit,11
growers. The apparatus coneists of
Parisian heels, two inches or moro
egood pieces of good meet, cover
both hold certificates as master mirieLes (tints to congulate the a battery of relay eoil, thermoine-
ter, end Ellerin bell, and it is so fed -
Lord Iltassey and eLord Dunraven them with boiling water for three
mariners. albumen on the outside, so as to
in height. A trifling matter *1 being
800 tons is about the 1110Xi11111111 prevent the inices of the meat frm oMeted that when the mereury In the
thermometer falls below a certain
, I
tiVe W0M0 11 directed attention to
seen talking confidentially With a ea-
lonel of' a British mineral train.. This escaping), then rub into them well point the electric circuit is broken
includeS the weight of engine and a nits -tore of one cup of it, one and the bolls ring. As the instru-
him. Els boot heels were hoDowi
and nned with diamointee •
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ounce of enapetre and one small meta eau be Set for any temperature
UMBRELLA..0.--CARNIVAL.
t1nder the influence or heat, and cry eight potuids of meat.. Next, bus crops. It, is set to a few de -
it tan. be ueed in hotehousee for var-
tender.
Zinc 01511113111) most or any meted leaspoochil of ground doves to eV -
At Devin, a seaside resort in Gee.
platinum least. place the ineat in 0 stone crock ano grecs above the point Of danger....,
Many, an Mabrella eareival 1511110,1,7
sham about those carpets. They nre been dissolved. Keep in a cool plate
"Ladies and gentlemen, there is 110 tableepoonfi)l of brown 815130.1' bas
Neon,"
IINK1NDLY COMMTINICATIVE.
Mr. Cash—"Clera. holds her age people were 91-000111. carrying tint,
--e.
rtilny Weather. 05i' 0035 thotteand
erelins with fantastic decortalone.,
Said a conscientious auctioneer ; Meer With ('01(1 Wider in 15111111 a ranged, suggested, no 1001111, by the
gomine tapestry carpets, 1 bought and t11111 the pieces 01115' every
thin from old Tapestry himself," day. Mrs. Caeh—"Yes; but she 1.0115 Prineri Were giean for the best de '
England.. Corned beef should be 511311 ell the everybody .else's," feete.
street and true,"
Sheridan was very happy in his
WiveS, althOUgh One of them, before
marrying him. spoke of her future
husband 5 "that fright, that horrid
held, Wear coarse, sombre garments,
and restrict them.selves to a diet of
bread and cheap fruits.
dumpling. with the finger, and then
The headsman of the Japanese cap -
covered. Pop iuto a pot of water
11,111 has just. died, after a manner
arid whichever dumpling rises to the
almost melodramatically illustrates
top first miter water boils, that one
the dramatic fitness of things. While
shall surely be the first to be mar -
passing over the railway at a level
shall
near Tokio Ile was caught Tied; or if one "has two or three
(ffiuerniens,t
ed. O. %beet 0'11
by a, passing train, itinl he who lied gs isltarmlneeetaonhebre bion.wset,;t0'
beheaded entity was 1,111111011 behead -
lin s and the first that rises to the
top will be the favored one.
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